A 24-year-old suspect, identified as Mmaduabuchi Okonkwo, has been arrested by the Policemen in Enugu State for allegedly possessing and transacting in counterfeit naira notes.<\/p>\n
DSP Daniel Ndukwe, the command\u2019s Police Public Relations Officer, made this known in a statement posted on the command\u2019s official X handle on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
According to the statement, \u201cPolice operatives serving in Abakaliki Road Police Division of the Enugu State Command, with the support of law-abiding citizens, on April 10, 2024, around 3pm, arrested one Mmaduabuchi Okonkwo \u201cm\u201d, aged 24, of Mkpologu, Emene, Enugu, at the Old IMT Bus Stop, Abakaliki Road, Enugu.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe suspect\u2019s arrest is sequel to his alleged possession and transacting in counterfeited naira notes.
\n\u201cA total of \u20a640,000 suspected counterfeited one thousand denominated Naira notes were recovered from him.\u201d
\nOkonkwo was said to have boarded a minibus and given the driver one of the counterfeited notes.
\nThe driver, however, scrutinised and observed that the currency was fake, thereby raising an alarm that led to the suspect\u2019s arrest.<\/p>\n
Furthermore, the statement said that during interrogation, the suspect confessed to paying N25,000 for counterfeit notes with a face value of N50,000.<\/p>\n
In addition, the statement states that, \u201cUpon interrogation, the suspect confessed to having paid the sum of \u20a625,000 genuine Naira notes to his cohort at large for the counterfeited Naira notes worth \u20a650,000.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe further confessed to having spent \u20a610,000 out of the fake notes, remaining the \u20a640,000 that was recovered from him.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe suspect will be arraigned and prosecuted once investigations are concluded.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A 24-year-old suspect, identified as Mmaduabuchi Okonkwo, has been arrested by the Policemen in Enugu State for allegedly possessing and transacting in counterfeit naira notes. DSP Daniel Ndukwe, the command\u2019s Police Public Relations Officer, made this known in a statement posted on the command\u2019s official X handle on Tuesday. According to the statement, \u201cPolice operatives […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":27539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[829],"class_list":["post-27522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-enugu-police"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27540,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27522\/revisions\/27540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}